I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Black History
category

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Black History

Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell. – Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, advice to all black youth, c.1967

Category:
Black History

There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

Category:
Black History

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. – Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise," And Still I Rise

Category:
Black History

Random Quotes

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. – Muhammad Iqbal

Category:
Nature

An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Opportunities

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. – Richard Steele

Category:
Silence

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish Ill know how it turned out. – Nora Ephron

Category:
Literary